i tried using another keyboardlayout, but idea seems to mess up some of the hotkeys. if i press ctrl & n (dvoraked), everything is fine, but ctrl & z (also dvoraked) openes a "find text"-dialog. any ideas what is happenig?

>i tried using another keyboardlayout, but idea seems to mess up some of the hotkeys. if i press ctrl & n (dvoraked), everything is fine, but ctrl & z (also dvoraked) openes a "find text"-dialog. any ideas what is happenig?

The way to avoid this sort of trouble is to put the Dvorakness inkeyboard firmware. The OS and apps think you have a QWERTY.

There are still some problems. Some combos are easy to key in QWERTYand awkward for DSK.

My Kinesis keyboard has firmware marcros, so I can map easy-to-keycombos to hard to key ones, and the software never knows anythingabout it.

-- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Productshttp://mindprod.comIf we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run � and often in the short one � the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (born: 1917-12-16 died: 2008-03-19 at age: 90)

i tried using another keyboardlayout, but idea seems to mess up some ofthe hotkeys. if i press ctrl & n (dvoraked), everything is fine, butctrl & z (also dvoraked) openes a "find text"-dialog. any ideas what ishappenig?

I've been using IDEA on PCs (running Linux) with Dvorak layouts for years and haven't noticed any problems. Perhaps you've inadvertently mapped ctrl-z to more than one action since switching layouts?

>"The OS and apps think you have a QWERTY.">that makes no sense. i switched the layout at os level, it is supposed to work that way

It depends who does the keyboard remapping. If a tiny computer insidethe keyboard does it, the OS and the apps know nothing about it. Ifthe OS does it in the keyboard driver then you have problems such asyou described.

The essay I pointed you to describes some of the problems with OSkeyboard mapping, including difficulty configuring BIOS, since the OSis not present to help you. Another is you must solve the remapprobem for each OS. Another (less so today) is apps reach down too fartoward the iron, and bypass the remap. Another is using other people'smachines. They get hostile if you reconfigure, or even block you. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Productshttp://mindprod.comIf we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run � and often in the short one � the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (born: 1917-12-16 died: 2008-03-19 at age: 90)

>>I've been using IDEA on PCs (running Linux) with Dvorak layouts for years >and haven't noticed any problems. Perhaps you've inadvertently mapped >ctrl-z to more than one action since switching layouts?

You may be getting interference from other keystroke-interceptingprograms like Allchars or ClipMate.-- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Productshttp://mindprod.comIf we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run � and often in the short one � the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (born: 1917-12-16 died: 2008-03-19 at age: 90)

>>I've been using IDEA on PCs (running Linux) with Dvorak layouts for>>years and haven't noticed any problems. Perhaps you've inadvertently>>mapped ctrl-z to more than one action since switching layouts?

You may be getting interference from other keystroke-interceptingprograms like Allchars or ClipMate.

Careful with your attributions now: I'm not experiencing any problems at all, thank you very much :)